Caleigh

#3,459 for girls in 2025, 44 births

Peak · girls
1999 · 322 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
5,768
since 1984

Caleigh over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Caleigh has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202001peak #702, 1999girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#3,45944
2024#2,69464
2023#2,41574
2022#2,82160
2021#2,21284
2020#2,07888
2019#1,97198
2018#1,97899
2017#1,824113
2016#1,550144
2015#1,258194
2014#1,326178
2013#1,529143
2012#1,477153
2011#1,135216
2010#1,156210
2009#924289
2008#1,030254
2007#1,027257
2006#1,167208
2005#1,019239
2004#1,025227
2003#998232
2002#1,014214
2001#936237
2000#880251
1999#702322
1998#952215
1997#1,187153
1996#1,306132
1995#1,482107
1994#1,79880
1993#1,88275
1992#2,19161
1991#2,35654
1990#2,46449
1989#2,93137
1988#2,53942
1987#3,42426
1986#3,45925
1985#5,34813
1984#8,1537
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First appearance
1984

The first year at least five girls were named Caleigh! It came in at #8,153, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.

See more about Caleigh
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 765 spots since 2024 (#2,694#3,459)
  • 1,381 spots since 2020 (#2,078#3,459)
  • 2,201 spots since 2015 (#1,258#3,459)
  • Biggest jump: 250 spots in 1999 (#952#702)
  • Biggest drop: 232 spots in 2010 (#924#1,156)
Rise & fade · girls
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1984
  • Peaked 1999 at #702 (322 births)
  • Births halved by 2012, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1998–2001
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,509
  • Highest: 1 in 5,509 girls born in 1999 were named Caleigh (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 36,529 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 41.7% of all girls named Caleigh (2,408) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s150#2,539 (1988)#4,309
1990s1,248#702 (1999)#1,632
2000s2,408#880 (2000)#1,002
2010s1,548#1,135 (2011)#1,520
2020s414#2,078 (2020)#2,613

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Caleigh in 2001

girls
#936
237 births · 1 in 7,598 girls

Top girls' names in 2001

  1. #1Emily25,059
  2. #2Madison22,166
  3. #3Hannah20,723
  4. #4Ashley16,531
  5. #5Alexis16,404
  6. #6Sarah15,929
  7. #7Samantha15,867
  8. #8Abigail14,807
  9. #9Elizabeth14,792
  10. #10Olivia13,977
  11. #936Caleigh237
More about 2001

girls

1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 7,598 of them was named Caleigh, which outranked 94.8% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Caleigh
  1. #933Chanel238
  2. #933Gabriel238
  3. #933Jaquelin238
  4. #936Caleigh237
  5. #936Ryann237
  6. #936Scarlett237
  7. #939Saige236
  8. #940Jana235
  9. #940Journey235

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2000
Risers
  1. 1,602Dafne#2,569#967
  2. 1,493Nevaeh#1,759#266
  3. 1,339Jimena#2,213#874
  4. 1,263Taina#2,174#911
  5. 1,069Yuliana#1,759#690
Fallers
  1. 913Dariana#837#1,750
  2. 368Cortney#825#1,193
  3. 362Maiya#994#1,356
  4. 313Rosalinda#701#1,014
  5. 307Ivana#863#1,170

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2001